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Is your local shelter or rescue still serving meat from pigs, cows, and chickens at fundraising events for other animals like dogs and cats? You can help them align their menu with their mission by letting them know about Animal Place's Food for Thought Program. Our advocate toolkit will get you started!
Thank you Kingston Animal Rescue for leaving animals off the plate at your events and for encouraging others in the sheltering community to do the same!
Visit foodforthoughtcampaign.org for our full list of endorsements, sample animal-friendly policies, menu planning ideas and recipes, catering resources, and an in-depth advocate toolkit to help you reach out to your local group.
More press for Animal Place’s Food for Thought campaign! Animal Rescue Inc., a rescue group serving southern Pennsylvania and Maryland, was featured in the Southern York County Community Courier celebrating their cruelty-free menu policy! For more information on how to encourage your local animal group to adopt an animal-friendly menu policy, visit foodforthoughtcampaign.org or email us at [email protected]
Have you noticed your local animal shelter serving animal products at their events? We’re here to help change that! With coordinators across the U.S. and Canada, and abundant resources - from advocacy tools to catering needs - we can work with any group to develop an animal-friendly menu policy.
Visit foodforthoughtcampaign.org or email us at [email protected] for more information!
Check out this month’s Food For Thought Shelter of the Month Save A Dog, Inc. This extraordinary animal organization adopted an animal friendly, veg-menu policy long ago!
Read more about their efforts to make a difference for ALL animals!
http://www.foodforthoughtcampaign.org/news/june-2015-shelter-of-the-month
http://www.foodforthoughtcampaign.org/news/march-2015-shelter-of-the-month
Congratulations Animal Rescue Inc. for not only adopting an animal friendly menu policy for your shelter-sponsored events, but also winning one of our prized Shelter Grants!
Animal Rescue Inc.’s dedication to not only companion animals, but to ALL beings is truly inspiring! For more information about this amazing organization and their move towards a brighter, less cruel world, check out our latest Food For Thought entry.
If you have a chance, tune in to Animal Voices Vancouver tomorrow at 12 pm PST at 100.5 FM or www.coopradio.org for live streaming. Listen to Carolyn Mullin, our amazing Food For Thought coordinator dish the details on our Food For Thought campaign!
Attention vegan go-getters!
Animal Place is now hiring Regional Coordinators for our one-of-a-kind Food For Thought campaign. The campaign provides resources and support to animal shelters and other nonprofits that want to adopt animal-friendly menu policies for their sponsored events. We are looking for three (3) coordinators to work with nonprofits in the Northwest, Chesapeake, and New England regions.
More info at: http://animalplace.org/job-openings
Have YOU heard about Animal Place's one-of-a-kind Food For Thought campaign?
This program encourages animal shelters to align their values and ideas and make them a reality by asking them to adopt an animal-friendly menu policy for their shelter-sponsored events!
Check out what the Food For Thought Campaign accomplished in 2014!
For over 110 years, Whatcom Humane Society (WHS) in Bellingham, Washington has been sheltering abandoned animals, fighting animal cruelty and neglect, and working to build a caring, compassionate and humane community. This incredible organization believes that ALL animals, as sentient beings, have value beyond economic measurements and are entitled to legal, moral, and ethical consideration and protection. Is it any wonder then that WHS has been a staunch supporter of Animal Place's Food for Thought campaign? Or that they worked alongside us to produce our first campaign video to encourage shelter directors to adopt an animal friendly/plant based menu policy for their events?
Under the inspiring leadership of executive director, Laura Clark, Whatcom Humane Society is leading the pack with their progressive approaches to community issues and treatment of animals. Their vegetarian food policy has been in place since 2002 and was implemented after recognizing that as an open-admission facility, WHS cared for all kinds of animals, including those typically used for food production. We had the great fortune to speak with Laura about her views, as well as those of WHS, when it comes to all things edible.
"Respect for all animals begins with not seeing the animals our organizations rescue as nothing more than a meal." - Marin Humane Society Is your local dog and cat shelter respecting animals? Or are they still serving the flesh, dairy, or eggs of nonhumans at their fundraising events? You can help them change. Ask us how. Email [email protected] for more information.
Offering a vegetarian menu is a simple thing to do, and sends a message about where your organization stand in regards to animal welfare. - Tona La Russa of Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation
That's what Animal Place's Food for Thought campaign is all about - encouraging shelters to take a stand on animal welfare by serving plant-based foods at their sponsored events.
Why is it that in the United States we cherish and love some animals while abusing and oppressing other animals for their flesh, breast milk, and eggs? Watch this video and share:
Our Food for Thought campaign was recently mentioned on Care2! Read about it here!
Great news, everyone! Hearts United for Animals is the most recent shelter to adopt an animal friendly menu policy because of our Food for Thought campaign! As a small token of our gratitude, they are also the shelter of the month for March 2014! Please check out the article and leave a nice comment...and like them on Facebook!
Food for Thought Shelter of the Month (#foodforthought): WARF - Wylie Animal Rescue Foundation Make sure to click on the link and meet Graham, one of the dogs in need of a loving home at WARF! In recognition of their work to help set the humane bar in the sheltering world, Animal Place is please to award Wylie Animal Rescue Foundation with our January 2014 Food for Thought SHELTER OF THE MONTH Award! http://www.foodforthoughtcampaign.org/3/post/2014/01/shelter-of-the-month-tahoe-warf.html
A simple question - why do we love one but not the other? This video challenges the idea that it is okay to love dogs but eat pigs.
